The Angel’s Envy Cask Strength 2014 Limited Edition Bourbon
Tasting notes: The color is really dark, like that shaman’s concoction of rooibos and deer blood I once sold at a Renaissance festival as a love philter. Until I was run [...]
Articles by John
The Boston Launch Event of the 2014 WhistlePig Boss Hog, The Spirit of Mortimer–John’s thoughts
The Boston launch event of the 2014 WhistlePig Boss Hog limited edition, this one dubbed “The Spirit of Mortimer,” occurred last week in the back/side [...]
The Glenfarclas 25
Tasting notes: What a venerable whisky this is, a fitting crown to the Familia Glenfarclii. Bill remembers drinking this at the Bow Bar in Edinburgh. He kept his notes on [...]
The Glenfarclas 10
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Tasting notes: Apples. Dahlias dipped in sherry on a hot morning. Cherry tobacco cigarillos, also dipped in sherry. The empty cigar box sits in a child’s room stuffed [...]
The Auchentoshan American Oak
Tasting notes: Resinous lemon wood cut into long, double-barreled flutes for satyrs. A perfume for elven maidens who ride fawns in the deep forest dells. Moldy [...]
The Clynelish 14
Tasting notes: Bamboo sugarcane hybrid. Shoots up into your sinus at six inches an hour. Hot and waxy. Perhaps even cardboardy. But this is the back of Perry [...]
The Glenmorangie Pride 1978
Tasting notes: [Editor: What John called a “preamble”—but which was in fact a jeremiad full of bitterness that he was unable to attend the Pride 1978 unveiling in [...]
The Glencadam 15
Tasting notes: Butterscotch. Fruits. Butterscotch dipped in fruit. Sweet smelling eraser fragments on an exam you’d soon fail. Pencil lead as well, pressed hard but [...]
The Wemyss “A Matter of Smoke” 15 Year Old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Tasting notes: A gardenia laurel placed in a Big Green Egg. A Tour de France stage winner, clad entirely in merino wool “throw back” cycling attire, after peddling 200 [...]
The Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu The Peated 2013–53.5% abv
Tasting notes: Ooh, I can smell the malt on this one! Fresh and bright! Like asparagus used to wrap bacon rather than the reverse. I also want to say that the nose is [...]
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